"The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for……" — John Owen
"The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not-which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose."
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John Owen
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176 Quotes by John Owen
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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily…
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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world:…
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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness,…
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really…
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go…
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As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed…
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and…
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil…
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
— Mel Brooks
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment
— Benjamin Rush
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Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared,…
— Unknown Author
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
— Calvin Coolidge
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One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the…
— Richard G. Scott
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O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
— Marsilio Ficino
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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are…
— Richard V. Allen
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We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to…
— Unknown Author
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